Friendly Fire by Kathryn Chetkovich (Iowa Short Fiction Award)

Friendly Fire describes how we are sometimes brought down by those we love. Kathryn Chetkovich's stories detail the lives of women finding their way in a contemporary world where the traditional maps of love, family, and community are no longer particularly reliable.

Publishers Weekly

Although these 11 smart stories explore traditional short-story territory (e.g., the frightened emptiness of a young single woman new to the big city, the wedding of an ex-lover, the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters), they do so with unusual, plainspoken panache and twisty plots.